| In the first seven years of life
alone, our brain volume triples. |
4.12 |
Jump to 98.96 |
DATE
the first seven years
|
| We also find the first games of
chance among hunter-gatherers. |
3.88 |
Jump to 188.68 |
ORDINAL
first
|
| And the first board games
tried to communicate these ideas. |
3.68 |
Jump to 279.44 |
ORDINAL
first
|
| It was played almost 5,000
years ago in Mesopotamia. |
3.28 |
Jump to 292.16 |
CARDINAL
almost 5,000
GPE
Mesopotamia
|
| “Pachisi” from
around 400 CE. |
2.76 |
Jump to 312.28 |
WORK_OF_ART
Pachisi
CARDINAL
400
|
| in the early
19th century |
1.68 |
Jump to 393.2 |
DATE
the early
19th century
|
| invented The
Landlord’s Game in 1904. |
2.4 |
Jump to 400.4 |
DATE
1904
|
| to whom she had sold
her patent rights in 1935. |
2.96 |
Jump to 414.32 |
DATE
1935
|
| That's one advantage of playing
games over watching movies and series. |
4.44 |
Jump to 516.68 |
CARDINAL
one
|
| The games industry has seen a 20
to 25% increase in sales worldwide. |
4.56 |
Jump to 532.44 |
CARDINAL
20
PERCENT
25%
|
| They generate 12 times more
revenue worldwide than board games. |
3.96 |
Jump to 580.2 |
CARDINAL
12
|
| In 2022, there were at least 80
million people affected worldwide. |
4.16 |
Jump to 674.6 |
DATE
2022
CARDINAL
at least 80
|
| by the World Health
Organization since 2001. |
2.84 |
Jump to 693.24 |
ORG
the World Health
Organization
DATE
2001
|
| And since 2022, so has gaming disorder
— an addiction to computer games. |
4.56 |
Jump to 696.6 |
DATE
2022
|
| The numbers are disputed,
but researchers estimate 1 to 3% |
4.2 |
Jump to 702.2 |
PERCENT
1 to 3%
|
| In contrast, no one has ever been
diagnosed with board game addiction. |
3.4 |
Jump to 711 |
|
| or some other board
game 30 times in a row. |
3.04 |
Jump to 729.28 |
CARDINAL
30
|
| But why don’t people play
board games 30 times in a row, |
3.04 |
Jump to 733.64 |
CARDINAL
30
|
| when they’ll play 30 hours of
World of Warcraft or Candy Crush? |
3.56 |
Jump to 736.68 |
TIME
30 hours
PERSON
Candy Crush
|
| One of the mechanisms that kicks
in here is the ‘endowment effect,’ |
3.92 |
Jump to 743.52 |
CARDINAL
One
|
| sticks in the mind more
than a finished one. |
1.92 |
Jump to 822 |
|
| than if they’d blasted
through it in one go. |
2.4 |
Jump to 837.4 |
|
| One example is the app Habitica,
which has had millions of downloads. |
3.92 |
Jump to 908.56 |
CARDINAL
One
GPE
Habitica
CARDINAL
millions
|
| We see we've been employee
of the month for the eleventh time |
3.16 |
Jump to 976.36 |
DATE
the month
ORDINAL
eleventh
|
| 70% of the
world's 2,000 largest companies |
3.72 |
Jump to 1232.84 |
PERCENT
70%
CARDINAL
2,000
|
| Through archeology, researchers
estimate that only two to three hours |
3.76 |
Jump to 1380.72 |
CARDINAL
only two to three hours
|